Pointer protection?
Hello all,
I'm working my way thru "C++ A Beginner's Guide" by Herbert Shildt from the MSDN web site. Right now I'm about half way thru Chapter 4, pointers.
While I understand the admonitions about responsible pointer usage, I would like to know if the operating system (Windows Mojave x64) does anything to protect me from writing to system memory and mucking up the works?
Thanks!!
I'm working my way thru "C++ A Beginner's Guide" by Herbert Shildt from the MSDN web site. Right now I'm about half way thru Chapter 4, pointers.
While I understand the admonitions about responsible pointer usage, I would like to know if the operating system (Windows Mojave x64) does anything to protect me from writing to system memory and mucking up the works?
Thanks!!
In most operating systems each program works within its own address space and cannot corrupt an addr. space of another one through a pointer.
If you do not use special API-functions to access common memory blocks or system memory blocks, do anything you want (and even do not want) inside your program.
If you do not use special API-functions to access common memory blocks or system memory blocks, do anything you want (and even do not want) inside your program.
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